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BTS 2-Week Outlook

 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

September 30 thru October 11

Upcoming from September 30

Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, August 2019

 

Monday, October 7, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, August 2019

 

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 10:00am ET
Transportation Services Index, August 2019

 

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Airline Traffic Data, September 2019 Estimated, July 2019 Reported

 

TBD
Airline On-Time/Tarmac Times, August 2019

 

Previously Released

Sept. 16 - Airline Financial Data, 2nd Quarter 2019

Sept. 17 - Passenger Airline Employment, July 2019

Sept. 24 - North American Freight Data, July 2019

Sept. 25 – Bikeshare/E-scooter Interactive Map

 

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:

 

  • Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, August 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Previous release: U.S. airlines July fuel cost was $1.98/gal, down 3 cents from June 2019 ($2.01) and down 22 cents from July 2018 ($2.20). Industry summary of airline fuel consumption, total fuel cost and price paid per gallon are available on the database. Individual airline numbers through March are available on the BTS website.

 

  • Airline Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, August 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019 - 11:00am ET
Previous release: U.S. airlines July employment (743,917 total full-time and part-time) was virtually unchanged from June 2019 and up 3.0% from July 2018 (passenger+cargo). Monthly full-time and part-time employment statistics are reported by U.S. airlines that operate at least one aircraft that has more than 60 seats or the capacity to carry a payload of passengers, cargo and fuel weighing more than 18,000 pounds.

 

  • Transportation Services Index (TSI), August 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 10:00am ET
The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in for-hire freight shipments by mode of transportation. The Passenger TSI measures the month-to-month changes in travel that involves the services of the for-hire passenger transportation sector. In the previous release for July, BTS reported that the Freight TSI was at its highest all-time level, up 0.9% from June, up 0.2% from the previous peak in November 2018. From July 2018 to July 2019, the index rose 2.9% compared to a rise of 6.0% from July 2017 to July 2018.

 

TSI July 2019

 

  • Airline Traffic Data, September 2019 estimate, July 2019 reported
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 11:00am ET
BTS estimates of air traffic data for August and September based on reported data through July. Estimates are for U.S. airlines monthly passengers, revenue passenger-miles, available seat-miles and load factor for systemwide, domestic and international. Numbers are seasonally-adjusted and unadjusted. In the previous release with the first estimate for August, U.S. airlines carried an all-time high estimated 78.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers, seasonally-adjusted, more than in any other month and up 4.7% from August 2018. For the first eight months of 2019, January through August, U.S. airlines carried 623 million passengers, up 4.0% from the first eight months of 2018 and the highest total based on comparable records since 2003.

 

Air Traffic Sept Est      

 

  • Air Travel Consumer Report: August 2019 Numbers
Date TBD
This release consists on U.S. airline domestic monthly on-time performance, cancellations, tarmac data, mishandled baggage and denied boardings released in coordination with the Department of Transportation's release of the Air Travel Consumer Report. From the previous month's release, in July 2019 reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 76.9%, up from both the 73.3% on-time rate in June 2019 and from 76.0% in July 2018. Reporting marketing carriers canceled 2.1% of their scheduled domestic flights, equal to the rate of 2.1% in June 2019 but a higher rate than 1.8% in July 2018. The marketing carriers include branded code-share partners of mainline carriers. 

 

ATCR July 2019    

 

 

BTS Previously

 

BTS has released the following:

 

  • U.S. Airline Financial Data, Second Quarter 2019
Sept 16
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported a second-quarter 2019 after-tax net profit of $4.8 billion, the 25th consecutive quarterly after-tax profit, and a pre-tax operating profit of $6.9 billion, the 33rd consecutive quarterly pre-tax profit. Additional financial numbers for all airlines are available on the BTS financial databases.

 

Air Financial 2Q 2019

       

 

  • Passenger Airline Employment, July 2019
Sept 17
BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 1.5% more workers in July 2019 than in July 2018:
  • July's 449,907 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) was the highest employment total for any month since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs)
  • July was the 69th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.
Release                       

Airline Employment July 2019

        

 

  • North American Freight Data, July 2019
Sept 24
BTS reported that truck was the most used mode for shipping freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in July 2019:
  • Total Transborder Freight: $4 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 1.2% compared to July 2018
  • Most-used mode: Truck moved $8 billion of freight, up 1.8% compared to July 2018 
  • Second mode: Rail moved $8 billion of freight, up 3.0% compared to July 2018 

      

Transborder July 2019

 

  • Bikeshare/E-scooter Interactive Map
Sept 25
BTS released a new interactive map that documents the rapid growth of bikeshare (docked and dockless) and e-scooter systems across the country from 2015 to 2019. The total number of these systems has reached almost 300 serving more than 200 cities as of July 2019.

 

Bikeshare July 2019

 

See BTS Release Schedule

 

 

 

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